http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/ken...465819749.htmlWill Ken win Barbie back?
Barbie, Ken's a changed man
February 10, 2006 - 7:28AM
Hollywood stylist Phillip Bloch with the restyled Ken doll.
He's been to the gym, looks buff and stylish, and now Barbie's boy toy Ken wants to win back the doll he split from two years ago.
After a two-year separation, Mattel said today that Barbie's long-time suitor wants to rekindle his decades-long romance with his plastic paramour and get her to give Aussie surfer Blaine the flick.
Mattel is hoping Ken's return to retail stores can also revitalise the company's overall fortunes. In January, the company blamed sagging Barbie sales for sagging profits.
"Ken has revamped his life -- mind, body and soul," Hollywood stylist and Mattel consultant Phillip Bloch said in a statement. "Everyone knows how difficult it is to change, especially when you've lived your life a certain way for more than four decades."
Mattel said in February 2004 that Barbie and Ken had split after 43 years because they wanted to spend some time apart.
Ken, who appears to have spent time in the gym and at the stylist, returns wearing a beach-wear ensemble complete with board shorts and white T-shirt.
For her part, Barbie publicist Lauren Dougherty said Barbie "appreciates the new look Ken is sporting. He really looks great. But we'll have to stay tuned to see whether these two will get back together."
At a press conference unveiling Ken, Bloch said the company was going for a "worldly, European thing", and "definitely wanted to be looking hot".
Mattel's fourth-quarter results in January showed an 18 per cent decline in Barbie's US sales. The company said that in addition to "tweaking" the Barbie line this year, more dramatic changes would be made in 2007.
Reuters
GI Joe will beat him out again. It's the car, stupid! And no woman can resist a man in a uniform.Barbie "appreciates the new look Ken is sporting. He really looks great. But we'll have to stay tuned to see whether these two will get back together."
(j/k)
Ken needs som tats
Interesting idea. What kind of tattoo do you think Ken would get?
skull with flames.
Does he still have no penis?
OMG! Does Ken with the pants have a man purse?
the one on the right is more my type, minus the gay man purse thing.
Metrosexual Ken.
How did Barbie get pregnant if he had no penis?? Its not Ken's (Barbie Soap opera in the making).
WTF is with Barbie's hair color?
I always wondered why they had no private parts.How did Barbie get pregnant if he had no penis?? Its not Ken's (Barbie Soap opera in the making).
I'm telling you, she's still got the thing going with GI Joe. He's so much more responsible than Ken, anyway.
Youve got to be kidding me......
No, it's true fatty, your taking up
too much space and pollutin' the airs.
This is somethin' me and my administration
takes alot of heat for, you know, not
havin' an environmental policy.
I figured I declare war on all TParks everywhere
and anyone who harbors smokey the bear.
I'm George W Bush and I approve this message.
Yes.
mattel is obviously going for a tomcruise/katieholmes style relationship with the new ken & barbie.
barbie = beard
Well, if you know anything about Philip Bloch...
They should have given him a front tuck and a huge belt buckle to complete the metrosexual look.
I imagine it would be tough to keep a hot chick like Barbie if you don't have a penis.
I am sure Boutons and NBADan will be the 1st to add these to there barbie collections.
yeah, sorry they don't have the "Obi" doll with included black bar, not that you'd use the black bar anyway......
Not to mention about a hundred times more manly...
Plus, I had the pink corvette, a Barbie Picnic Set, a Barbie Bedroom Set (for her and Ken), and about a gazillion clothes for them.
Barbie! I never liked the . Cabbage Patch dolls were the in my days...
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